BUZZARDS BAY — On May 13, Robert Blazon dialed Bourne police to ask if an officer could check on his daughter Jayne McCutcheon, who he said was not making sense during a phone call earlier in the day.

When an officer arrived at her home at about 12:45 p.m., he found that McCutcheon had been drinking, "but she was in the care of her sober husband," Bourne Police Chief Dennis Woodside said Friday, quoting the officer's report.

"The father was notified," the report says.

That visit was the last Bourne police paid to the 41 Little Bay Lane home before Wednesday, when Carol Anne Brouillette called to say that she had not heard from her younger sister in a while. An officer arrived to find the front door unlocked and, after announcing himself and walking through the house, he found Jayne McCutcheon, 49, and her 57-year-old husband, David McCutcheon, dead in the master bedroom.

Reading that report in an interview Friday, Woodside corrected Cape and Islands District Attorney Michael O'Keefe's statement that the most recent check was carried out last week, raising the possibility that the couple were dead for longer than a week.

"I would say they've clearly been dead for a couple weeks, based on my experience," Woodside told the Times, responding to a records request filed Thursday.

The records, copies of which the Times has not yet received, also paint a picture of the McCutcheons' dealings with police, with alcohol consistently in the background.

"I think it's fair to say they were heavy users of alcohol," Woodside said, declining to comment on whether alcohol use played a role in the couple's deaths.

On Sept. 6, David McCutcheon called police after waking up from a nap to find that his wife was missing. An officer stopped by the house at about 3:30 p.m.

"They had both been drinking," according to another report Woodside quoted, in which David McCutcheon was described as confused and "extremely intoxicated."

After a search of the house, Jayne McCutcheon was found inside the trunk of a car parked in the garage, sleeping with a blanket and pillow, Woodside said.

On the driver's-side window, she had posted a note asking that the car doors not be locked.

"She said she went into the trunk to get some peace and quiet," the report says. "She was not intoxicated."

Woodside declined to comment further on the condition of the bodies, evidence found inside the home or the suspected cause of death.

Neighbors in their quiet Buzzards Bay community said the McCutcheons divided their time between their home in Windham, New Hampshire, and their Cape house — which they occasionally rented out — at the bottom of a dead-end road with views of Little Buttermilk Bay. The couple would wave hello to their neighbors but largely kept to themselves.

Before Friday, the Bourne Police Department had deferred comment because O'Keefe's office oversees death investigations and typically handles requests from the media, Woodside said.

"It doesn't prohibit us from commenting, but we generally like to speak with one voice so there's not an error in facts," Woodside said.

When asked why O'Keefe might have thought a well-being check had been conducted as recently as last week, Woodside said, "I think someone misspoke," possibly from his department.